ICTP COLLOQUIUM
16:00,
Friday, 1 April 2011
The Luigi
Stasi Seminar Room, Leonardo Building, ICTP
The
Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi
Ing. Vic Hayes
Senior
Research Fellows, Delft University of Technology,
The
Netherlands
About the speaker:
Victor
Hayes, nicknamed “the Father of Wi-Fi”, was born in
Surabaya, Netherlands-Indies at that time, in 1941. He repatriated
with his family in 1950 to the Netherlands and received his B.E.
degree from the “HTS Amsterdam” in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1961.
He
served as Co-Founder (1990) and first time Chair of IEEE 802.11,
Working
Group for Wireless LANs (9.75 years of Chairmanship) and later
as Ombudsman Radio Regulations at the IEEE 802 Executive Committee
(2000-2002).
He
was the Founder and first time Chair of the Regulatory Committee at the
Wi-Fi
Alliance, the Industry Association related to IEEE 802.11 (2001-2003).
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